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"There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey."
— Chris Heimerdinger (Tennis Shoes: Gadiantons and the Silver Sword)

tags: evil, good, inspirational, right, wrong
36 people liked it

"Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist."
— Chris Heimerdinger (Tennis Shoes: Feathered Serpent, Part 2)

tags: inspirational
23 people liked it

"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin."
— Robert Collier

tags: inspiration
49 people liked it

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
— Robert Collier

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"If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
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— Robert Collier

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"All power is from within and therefore under our control"
— Robert Collier

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"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
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— Robert Collier

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"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."
— Robert Collier

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"You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceeding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come."
— Robert Collier

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"My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed."
— Robert E. Howard

tags: barbarism, civilization
8 people liked it

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
— Robert E. Howard

tags: humor, life, politics, society
56 people liked it

"I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
— Robert E. Howard

tags: life, religion
9 people liked it

""Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind.Civilization is unnatural.It is the whim of circumstance.And barbarianism must ultimately triumph"

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— Robert E. Howard

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"All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—

The Feast is over, and the lamps expire."
— Robert E. Howard

tags: cthulhu, horror, lovecraft
5 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,150 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,495 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
2,940 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,305 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,644 people liked it

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
1,087 people liked it

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, reading
772 people liked it

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: children-s, entertainment, stories
874 people liked it

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
958 people liked it

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion
472 people liked it

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, happiness, religion
450 people liked it

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: atheism, religion
341 people liked it

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, dreams, goals
393 people liked it

"Nothing is yet in its true form."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: truth
83 people liked it

"You can make anything by writing."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: writing
152 people liked it

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall."
— Roald Dahl

tags: humor
464 people liked it

"Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!"
— Roald Dahl

tags: food, humor
227 people liked it

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
1,198 people liked it

"She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness.

I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible."
— Roald Dahl (The Witches)

47 people liked it

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth
538 people liked it

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: inspirational
322 people liked it

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

tags: language, politics
226 people liked it

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
— George Orwell

tags: military
78 people liked it

"Big Brother is Watching You."
— George Orwell (1984)

57 people liked it

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
— George Orwell (1984)

51 people liked it

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
— George Orwell

tags: generations, intelligence, wisdom
76 people liked it

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
— George Orwell

tags: liberty
57 people liked it

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

128 people liked it

"In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer..."
— George Orwell

11 people liked it

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

tags: inspirational
383 people liked it

"...Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

tags: common, humor, sense, smart
374 people liked it

"Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do"
— Christopher Paolini

66 people liked it

"Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe."
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

81 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,603 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,230 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,830 people liked it

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